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Love this post! It`s almost like I wrote it. Just yesterday I was signing “You have a friend in me”. I only feel the need to fight for justice and truth, and to defend my family-We are a little like the mafia. Alone we are harmless put us in the same room and the offender is bound to be rolled up in a carpet and put outside for rubbish disposal. We are not dumping them in the river, it`s too far!! J/K!! Nice post!!!

You had me laughing my head off with your fear of beards and your biscuit obsession. I know a few people with a thing about men and beards.

And I’m glad I’m not the only one fixated on food, though chocolate cake is my downfall. I am also super impressed you can wrap your leg around your neck – but now I can’t help wondering whether your husband sees advantages from this flexibility.

I can completely relate to:

I fear: Wasting too much of my life. And that I’ll never find the biscuits.
I listen: With patience to people’s stories. And also for signs that someone’s about to put the kettle on. (my hubby is totally my coffee/tea slave!)
I crave: Understanding, knowledge and something good to eat

And I REALLY could have written these:
I am: Honest, outspoken, loyal, creative and passionate. And bad tempered when I have PMT.
I am not: A liar, or a gossip. Or organised and tidy.

Hi Elaine – LOL – I’m pleased you don’t go as far as dumping them in the river.

Hi Robin – The leg wrapping thing is just one of those bad habits I’ve never grown out of.

Hi Kelly – Beards are so gross and unhygienic. They’re a bit like wearing a mask – I always feel like the other person is trying to hide something. And I’d rather drink my own urine than kiss someone who has one.

I love chocolate cake too – but we hardly ever have it in the house, or my ass would be bigger than J-Lo’s.

re: My husband. Sometimes I think he believes I’m made of plasticine. But I don’t mind so long as he keeps putting the kettle on.

Re PMT (PMS in US): I was once watching a TV program about it. When it came to the commercial time, I turned to my then-husband and said “Wow, I feel so lucky I don’t have any of those horrible pains and mood changes!” He stared at me for a good five seconds, his face turned with horror, and said “You have the worst PMS I’ve seen . . .”

Hi Akemi – I’m glad I made you laugh. It’s weird how we often don’t recognise we have a problem until someone points it out. I am dreading menopause. I know folk who’ve seemed like they’re having constant PMT for years when they’re going through that.

Hi Annie – I almost didn’t see you. The biscuit thing is a real challenge. I’m looking forward to reading your post.

Thanks Vered – I love handbags. I have some really nice ones. But I made myself stop getting anymore a couple of years ago. I’m not a great lover of trudging round the shops but Netaporter is an amazing website. I’ve banned myself from it.

I love swimming naked. I love my homemade chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) and am quite competive about them regarding other cookie feeders. And thank goodness!! A fellow Disney song singer. My girls and I sing Disney songs all the time (totally horrifies my song). Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities….*giggle*

As for the Mile High Club, never done it myself, and several friends of mine have put the fear of the law into me. Apparently it is illegal and they actually know people who have been charged!!! Even for touching under the blankets!!! Sigh, all the fun is being sucked out of life.

I have also seen people charged for doing things under the blanket in business class. And they wound up on the front of the newspaper here. I think one of them was married and they’d never even met before, so it must have been really embarrassing.

Stuart thinks it would be good publicity for my blog – but I worry that my kids would get teased at school.

@ Cath: Well, I was a lot younger and more nimble I guess back then, but despite age, it is a great way to have uhm, you know what. The rocking of the train certainly helps if you know what i mean, plus, we did have a private cabin too, so its not exactly daring like the mile high club, hehehehe….I wonder if they give out club membership for trains too.

@ Rita: Bruce the goose is what we call a local guy here. If for nothing else than the silly sound. I look forward to Bruce too. Have to check him out in a tick.

@ Monika – I can see how the vibration of the train might make it interesting. You should write to the train line and ask if you can have a card.

@ Stuart – Trust you to think of the leg thing. It wasn’t just the loo size – it was the thought of being arrested. As you know I accidentally set myself on fire on a plane before – so I don’t want to push my luck.

You should write to Richard – so long as they didn’t make it too much like Big Brother – that would be a bit creepy. Monika’s suggestion for a title is brilliant.

Theresa on
August 24th, 2008 8:54 pm

Cath – I found your blog to be one of the most honest and yet funniest things I’ve read in a long time. You seriously need to think about publishing it. So many of your answers mimic other woman’s feelings and opinions so they can relate in a humorous way. I personally couldn’t wait to get to the next line. Thanks for the great reading.
Theresa

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Oh my gosh another Disney song singer. Thought I was one of the only ones. Except my problem is I sing them while shopping. Was caught earlier this week singing bibbidi-bobbidi-boo in the grocery store and didn’t even realize it until a clerk asked what I was singing.